Posts by Rob Hosking
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@Ian
You Done My Brain In.
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That's the problem with prog. The whimsy.
You're missing the point - prog IS whimsy (this is also what makes it a quintessentially English genre).
I don't think that's quite right... the problem with prog is it is whimsy which at the same time takes itself a little too seriously.
The forerunners of those long prog-rock suites in the '70s were the late '60s concept albums like the Small Faces 'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake', the Kinks 'Village Green' and the Who's 'Sell Out'. There was whimsy a-plenty along with the conceptual aspect but it never got too po-faced.
The rot started with the Who's 'Tommy', I think.
[...Which I believe was some kind of hovercraft....]
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Andrew Ll: thanks for that story. Made my day.
(and I remember pickettywitch. 'I still get that same old feeling...' was their hit, I think.
As for Jethro Tull...really don't mind, if I sit this one out...[insert cute flute bit....]
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Quite liked this take on the pain rating thing:
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Good to hear you're on the mend.
Quesiton: did knowing you could write about it afterwards help? Because it's a trick I discovered some years ago. It has since helped a lot in pain-related situations of one kind or another. (I'm not good with pain, and the one time I was given morphine, after I reported with chest pains one morning, it gave me instant, violent nausea)
I think your reaction to the catheter - as in 'get the damn thing out' - is quite common for guys. I know of several who have felt that way (one of whom tried to rip it out). Personally I wince whenever anyone even says the word.
Oh, and amen to Michael's comment about the 'third world' thing. I've often had the same thought.
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The Italian for undies is mutande, and I'll admit it's not very erotic. It's an interesting word, though, in that its Latin root (as in the expression "mutatis mutandis") literally means "garment that ought to be changed frequently".
They never told us about the grundies aspect of 'mutatis mutandis' when I first heard it at Law School.
Pity.
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For the fellow Paul Kelly fans...
'Song of the Old Rake' -
I'll add another one: be present at birth of your child without disgracing yourself.
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Intrigued how a list of how to do things involving some skill devolved into a list of stupid ways to hurt yourself but carry it off with aplomb.
Not so much grace under pressure (nice Hemingway reference there) as nonchalance under extreme pain.
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I killed a mouse with a can of beer, does that count?
MAAATE!!!
My partner put a concrete drill through his upper arm. How manly is that?
That...will take some beating.
His upper arm?? Was he holding it upside down or something?? And if so, why?